@newmonday: the reason is the licence fee for Cryengine is something about $1M. Companies that can afford it have their own proprietary engines. Besides, Cryengine isn't really suitable for consoles, see how Crysis 3 performs (15 FPS is a joke).

I'm particularly eager to see Frostbite on next gens, same as proprietary Sony engines from SMS and ND. But I guess we have to wait with ND till E3. They won't reveal anything before TLOU releases. Ubisoft also has some really neat engines (Watch_Dogs and Assassin).

Its comical that Crytek first came to general note for making a game which only really played on maxed out PCs, then pushed their engine for cross platforming use, only for it to best perform on high-end PCs.

Good to hear that, but am I the only onewho actually fears that the next gen Multi-platform titles (Im only referring to PS4 and X.720) They wont be able utilize PS4 Tech advantage in comparison to Xbox? And that's because Microsoft's "rule" of not having an inferior port if not better?! <- don't even know if this pathetic rule is true... I really hope this won't be the case :/

There's no such rule by MS. The reason multiplatform games are better on the 360 is because it's easier to code for and port to. There aren't as many memory tricks to perform on the 360 because of it's ram size and architecture.

I agree true next gen is seeing diversity in textures on a single character not 1. I want to see metal look like real metal cloth look like cloth hair look like real hair skin look like real skin not evrything look like shiny plastic. until that happens it's not truely next gen.

This will be great for 3rd party devs to use, i rather see sony 1st party studio create an engine between sony santa monica & naughty dog & gg & just share that engine with all their 1st party studios.

given the PS4's architecture, i expect the unreal engine to perform *much* better than it did on the PS3. i tended to avoid getting the PS3 version of games that used the unreal engine unless it was one of those 2-3 X360 discs vs. 1 PS3 disc situations.

Well if its available now then I was just saying how long it would take them to make games using unreal 4 ps4 comes out in holiday 2013 so with this news I was just saying that they won't have no games out using the tech till about 2 years or more unless its a port from a game allready in devolpment on pc or p3 or xbox using the tech cause if I remember correct epics Tim said ur3 was compatible with 4 and that 4 was able to scale up or down to what ever platform needed so I wasn't trolling lol

"We'll run on mobile phones and on a wide variety of things, so if a customer decides they want to port an Unreal Engine 4 game to Wii U, they could," but emphasizes that "Unreal Engine 3 is a really good fit for that platform."

Well it hasn't been "confirmed" for the Wii U, quite the opposite. Epic said they will not develop or support UE4 for the Wii U. If developers want to use UE4 on Wii U they can only do it if they're porting a game from other platforms to the Wii U. And the developers will have to port and re-code UE4 themselves to work with the Wii U, which wont be easy.

Hahaha, Today Sony must have given middleware developers the goTo announce full support and availability of the full tools for the PS4, because DAMN, 5 middleware tools were announced today as available to PS4 Devs. We already knew epic was supporting the platform but it now seems Sony's platform is no longer in prototype hardware form given the Full toolset for these middleware are now available and running smoothly.

The PS4 is really really looking like first day purchase the more I learn about it.

I'm happy The UE4 is now tailor made to PS4 Specs This should produce some great looking less blocky, less plastic looking, and more seamless experience in game environment and characters. :)

chalk another on the Board, but Sony is doing great things. Bring on E3 and GDC 2013.

ps4 Better be out in the UK in November the 17 also or i will cry! Cant wait for games with these sort of graphic finesse! Ps3 slim is going to my son and his fat one (my original) will be going in the girls room so they can watch blu ray . We are the Sony family!

The engine makes developers work a lot easier! Anyone who learned how to use the last engine will be delighted how much faster and more flexible the new engine will be. (this is speculation.) They most likely will start on consoles to sell the engine and then blast the settings up a notch on the PC later on.